We’ve been around for a while, helping big names like Arizona State University, smaller organizations like Sun Country Sports Center®, and countless others in between to create smarter schedules more quickly. We’re not one to rest on our laurels, though. We’re always improving and always looking for ways to give you even better tools.
The result? Regular updates to our platform, apps, services, and features. Recently, we rolled out one we’re truly excited about. Scheduling, preparing for, handling, and making action items following an employee review is now easier than ever thanks to our new tool.
How SubitUp’s New Tool Makes Employee Reviews Easier for Everyone
An employee review is when a manager and an employee meet to discuss the employee's performance. These are commonly held either quarterly or annually but may happen on other occasions, such as when an employee’s 90-day probationary period ends.
Everyone needs direct feedback from their superiors, and an employee review provides this opportunity. If a member on your team isn’t quite hitting the mark, you need to tell them. Just the same, if someone is doing fantastic work and you’re pleased with their performance, they need to be told too.
As important as an employee review is for your team members, they’re not so simple to put together – until now. Our new employee review tool aggregates everything a person does into one view for you, their manager, to see. This “snapshot” makes it easier than ever to:
- Schedule the Review
- View Their Certifications
- Assign and Track Goals
- Understand Trend Lines
As well, you can also clearly and easily see the team member’s data, including:
- Punctuality
- Number of Shifts They’re Scheduled for
- Number of Shifts They Pick Up for Others
- How Much They Make
This team member data is incredibly important for your bottom line. The wage tracking and budget benefits of knowing who is working, when they’re working, and how much they make for doing so, cannot be overstated.
Why Employee Reviews Matter
Employee reviews are your chance to provide strategic vision, establish organization-wide goals, clarify team objectives, set expectations, and help your individual employees improve. In these one-on-one meetings, employees learn what their strengths are and where they should focus on in order to improve. This effort serves to boost morale, increase retention, as well as simply make your organization a better place to work.
These employee reviews are focused on growth, providing positive feedback, and measuring staff performance. This makes for more engaged-team members, and more-engaged team members are happier than those who don’t feel they’re getting direct feedback and that their opinions are heard.
There are hard numbers to back this all up. Deloitte found that companies who conduct effective performance reviews are:
- 30% more likely to meet their financial target
- 3x as likely to manage change successfully
- 2.2x more likely to improve efficiency
- 1.7x more likely to delight customers
- 3.7x more likely to address workforce development needs
- 2.7x more likely to have an engaged workforce
After the Review, What’s Next?
Our review wizard lets you choose the type of review you want to give and walks you through the steps to build a quality review. Our system enables you to not only provide constructive feedback to your staff but also directly schedule a time to meet with the employee based on their work schedule. Once the employee review is complete, it is saved to the employee profile so managers with proper permissions can access it. This way, you will always have a sense of that employee's performance and growth track.
In addition to preparing for the review and conducting the review, the new tool allows you to:
- Facilitate Feedback
- Save Information to the Team Member’s Profile
- Use Reviews for Future Scheduling
Keep in mind that employee reviews aren’t helpful if nothing changes afterward. The review should end with actionable feedback, and these insights should be entered into the system. During the next review, you can check back to see how the employee has done working towards these goals.
Remember, SubitUp ensures your rock stars are on the schedule as much as they and you want them to be. This is thanks to our automated scheduling functionality, which saves 85% of your time that would normally be spent creating a schedule. The software learns when your team wants to work, who is punctual and shows up for each shift, and more. Lower employee reviews and more shifts dropped mean the system will no longer schedule them as often. It’s all a part of successfully integrating your entire workforce management system.
Do More With SubitUp
Employee reviews are essential to the short-term happiness and long-term success of your organization. While we help make these reviews easier and more actionable, this is only a small portion of what our platform enables you to do. We also help with payroll, scheduling, time clock management, and more.
Let's chat about how we can make it easier to handle your employee reviews. It all begins with a consultation. Reach out today and let’s talk about your organization’s needs.
